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What: The 2008 14th Annual Brainwash Movie Festival
When: Fri. & Sat., July 25th and 26th at 9:00 p.m. each night.
Where: Mandela Village Arts Center, 1357 5th St., Oakland, California, USA.
How: $9/nite — or less!
Winners: See the list of winners here!
What specifically: The short movies that screened this year were:
| Movie | Moviemaker |
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Friday, July 25th, 2008: |
| (Featuring a ritual invocation and introduction by the Rhythmic Revolution) |
| The Drill | Dan Seneres |
| Survival, control, and revenge in a post-apocalyptic world. |
| The Road | Owen Thomas |
| Random acts of kindness go unpunished. |
| Crossin' All The Boundaries | Rebecca Parrish |
| Race, class, gender, and power explored in a Mississippi town, via the 2008 election. |
| Psych Burn | J.X. Williams |
| Rediscover J.X. Williams' classic. |
| Hotel Paradiso | Sol Bundy |
| Warum sind Sie hier, bitte? Ich muss ein Huhn zu schiessen. |
| Human Park | Mick Cusimano |
| Dinosaurs go to the human zoo |
| FilmDogTM | Joey Bargsten |
| Learn the exciting basics of making film from A Boy And His Dog. |
| The Language Lesson | Eileen Finn |
| The dangers of procrastination. |
| Wiffle Ball | Jim Ford |
| It's just a game. Seriously. |
| Treehugger | David Burns |
| Man loves tree. |
| Dead Boyfriends | Xstine Cook |
| Fire! Blood! Puppet Death! |
| The Death of Artists (Air 56) | Jim Magrini |
| Abstract, image-laden critique of the artists themselves. |
| Severely Spaced | Mark McGothigan & Ure Thrall |
| The Cosmos redistributed. |
| Bally Master | Gary Beeber |
| Meet Scott Baker, master of the Bally stage at
Coney Island. |
| Video Calibration | Caitlin Horsmon |
| 0:01:25 |
| Friday running time: 119.083333333333 minutes |
Saturday, July 26th, 2008: |
| Movie | Moviemaker |
|---|
| J.X. Williams trailer | Noel Lawrence |
| Rediscovered 60's movie genius (Featuring an appearance by Noel Lawrence, Executive Director of the J.X. Williams Archive) |
| Heartless | Paul Dalio |
| Simon adapts the story of the Tin Man, with heart. |
| Every Seven Minutes | Josh Bass |
| Mike just wants to sleep. His alarm clock has other ideas. |
| Motherload of Trophies | Karim Amara |
| "There's beauty in junk... people throw away so much good stuff." |
| The Human Error | Derek Burnett |
| A problem has been detected that seems to have been caused by the following file: you. |
| Whitebread and Goatman | Steve Hosford |
| The biggest score of two cops' careers. |
| Long Night Drone | Neil Forman |
| A music video that chronicles the building of a rock star. |
| Even | Ben Jurin |
| Revenge is served raw and red. |
| Amor Peligrosa | Michelle Silva |
| Love in the shadows. |
| And the Birds Flew From the Trees | Sean Buckelew |
| A walk in the forest takes an unexpected turn. |
| The Mercury Men | Christopher Preksta |
| The fate of the universe rests in the hands of a meager office drone. |
| Optech 1 | Dan Monceaux |
| Deceptively simple Op Art-inspired audio-visual immersion. |
| The Double | Rani DeMuth |
| A man on a journey to discovery. |
| Transrexia | Voltaire |
| Rawr! |
| Followed by the ever-popular Awards Presentation, MC'ed by the Rhythmic Revolution |
| Saturday running time: 111.666666666667 plus. |
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